Music of this Decade

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Eon Blue
This decade is coming to an end. Post your favorite songs and albums of the decade. I don't expect people to post as many as I did.

I'll add my top albums later.

50. A Premonition by Katatonia
49. The Stars are Projectors by Modest Mouse
48. Roulette Dares (The Haunt of) by The Mars Volta
47. Into the Hollow by Queens of the Stone Age
46. Kimdracula by Deftones
45. Silent Shout by The Knife
44. Intervention by Arcade Fire
43. Fearless by The Bravery
42. Sigur 4 (Untitled) by Sigur Ros
41. Baby's First Coffin by The Dillinger Escape Plan

40. Ever by Team Sleep
39. Method Acting by Bright Eyes
38. Sit down. Stand up by Radiohead
37. Unretrofied by The Dillinger Escape Plan
36. Human After All by Daft Punk
35. Dungeoneering by Tim Hecker
34. Strange Lights by Deerhunter
33. The Birth and Death of the Day by Explosions in the Sky
32. The Well and the Lighthouse by Arcade Fire
31. Nude by Radiohead

30. Without You I'm Nothing by Placebo
29. Travel is Dangerous by Mogwai
28. Dr. Strangeluv by Blonde Redhead
29. In the Flowers by Animal Collective
28. How Near How Far by Trail of Dead
27. Trains by Porcupine Tree
26. Feel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
25. Blinded by Blood by Ulver
24. Saffron Revolution by Fennesz
23. Semaphore by Kinski
22. The Hawthorne Passage by Agalloch
21. Heart in the Hand of the Matter by Trail of Dead

20. Bird Gurl by Antony and the Johnsons
19. The Way to Heaven by Buckethead
18. When We Were Young by The Killers
17. Earth Heals Herself by Buckethead
16. Graveyard Girl by M83
15. Isolation Years by Opeth
14. Up by M83
13. Heartattack in a Layby by Porcupine Tree
12. Triggering Back by Benoit Pioulard
11. Breathe Me by Sia

10. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. by Sufjan Stevens
9. Breathe by Telepopmusik
8. Hope There's Someone by Antony and the Johnsons
7. Perfume for Winter by Fennesz
6. Heart Songs by Weezer
5. Hope Leaves by Opeth
4. Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean by Explosions in the Sky
3. Signs by Bloc Party
2. Reckoner by Radiohead
1. Eos by Ulver

Jim Colyer
I think the best music of this decade has been the country music coming out of Nashville.

occultdestroyer
Coheed & Cambria - The Willing Well III: Apollo III: The Telling Truth

KoRn - Hating

Owl City - The Saltwater Room

Immortal Technique - Dance With The Devil

Utada Hikaru - Simple and Clean

Paramore - All We Know

Sabrepulse - Horizons

Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow

Saosin - Bury Your Head

Dredg - Whoa is Me

Dredg - Bug Eyes

Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty

Mindless Self Indulgence - Stupid MF

Royksopp - Only This Moment

Frou Frou - Let Go

Seventh Day Slumber - Caroline

Imogean Heap - Headlock

Coldplay - Strawberry Swing

Coldplay - Lovers In Japan

Stone Sour - Bother

Skindred - Trouble

Utada Hikaru - SAKURA Drops

Augustana - Boston

Plain White Ts - Delilah

Twiztid - We Don't Die

Deadlock - The Brave/Agony Applause

Sonic Syndicate - Enclave

Scar Symmetry - Morphogenesis

Scar Symmetry - Dreaming 24/7

Damien Rice - 9 Crimes

The Morning Of - Reverie

Demon Hunter - Carry Me Down

Falling Up - Broken Heart

As I Lay Dying - 94 Hours

UnderOath - When The Sun Sleeps

Flyleaf - Perfect

Broken - Promise

Oceana - We Are The Messengers

Family Force 5 - Love Addict

Counting Crows - Colorblind

Skillet - Rebirthing

Kutless - Promise Of A Lifetime

The Classic Crime - Abracadavers

For Today - Words Of Hope

Living Sacrifice - The Power Of God

Living Sacrifice - In Christ

The Devil Wears Prada - HTML Rulez D00d

August Burns Red - Composure

Showbread - Mouth Like A Magazine

Frost Like Ashes - Born To Pieces

Eon Blue

MildPossession
Tim Hecker is fantastic.

Eon Blue
Gods, yes.

yesac2015
WELL I CANT THINK OF MUCH RIGHT NOW BUT A LOT OF VELVET REVOLVER

Kovacs86
The decade's not been great. Off the top of my head:

Morrissey- You Are The Quarry
Franz Ferdinand (eponymous)
Bob Dylan- Love & Theft
Muse- Absolution
PJ Harvey- Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

ladygrim
my fav of the decade

yeah yeah yeahs it's blitz
yeah yeah yeahs show your bones
their other one which the name i cant remember
arctic monkeys whatever people say i am thats whatim not
kasabian west ryder pauper lunatic aslyum

ESB -1138
21st Century Break Down by Green Day
Little Voice by Sara Barielles
The Fame by Lady Gaga (Paparazzi FTW!)
Capricorn by Jay Chou
My Lonely Town by the B'z
Rainism by Bi Rain
Mes Courants Electriques by Alizee

Those have been some of my favorites for this decade.

Rain Dog

Pezmerga
my favorite albums...

Snakes And Arrows - Rush
The Human Equation - Ayreon
01011001 - Ayreon
Everything by Jack White this decade...
Anonymous - Tomahawk
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Everything by Muse so far...
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Doomsday Afternoon - Phideaux
We will start with that....I will add more later.

Darth Jello
Albums in no particular order, not counting rereleases and counting 2001 as the start of the decade, One album per band-

Garbage-Bleed Like Me
Vaselines-Enter The Vaselines
Wipers-Box Set
Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine-The Audacity of Hype
Nirvana-With The Lights Out
TSOL-Disappear
Adolescents-Live at the House of Blues
Sonic Youth-The Eternal
Flipper-Love
Free Kitten-Inherit
The Lovemakers-Times of Romance

Best Songs of the Decade (one per band, must be first released in the decade)-
Sonic Youth-Reena
Garbage-Right Between the Eyes
Nirvana-Do Re Mi
TSOL-Disappear
Adolescents-California Son

Songs best fitting the decade (released any time)-
Dead Kennedys-A Growing Boy Needs His Lunch
Wipers-When It's Over
Jello Biafra-Electronic Plantation
Adolescents-Guns Of September
Sonic Youth-Confusion Is Next
Sonic Youth-Anti-Orgasm
The Vaselines-No Hope
Young Marble Giants-Music For Evenings
Mazzy Star-Into Dust
Flipper-Sacrifice
Negative Trend-Mercenaries
Cruci****s-Legal Genocide

WickedDynamite
This decade started with the fading goth style...moved to a boring bunch of tools...then Kanye West...nearly ending with emos...and finally reaching to lame Wil am i.

yeah...this decade sucked. Glad it wasn't part of my gen. thumb down

Omnislash Kid
I know I'm going to get bashed by "true metalheads" but I want to say deathcore. I dont mean poser deathcore bands like TDWP or BMTH, deathcore bands like Despised Icon: Chelsea Grin, The Red Chord, Black Dahlia Murder, Job for a Cowboy, Whitechapel, Her Demise My Rise (Either Coco or Cameron as vocalists).
I'm not saying I dont listen to other metal bands. I ****ing love death metal, black metal, metalcore, grindcore, heavy metal, metal, ect.
"True" metalheads are acting like... never mind. I cant bash religion (Christianity) on these forums.
Anyways, I love deathcore. If you can't tell the difference in bands then how can you say 80's heavy metal bands are any better. Hell, all of those bands (most of those bands) sound the same. I can tell the difference in deathcore bands though. That's my opinion though.

lord xyz
I've listened to a lot of indie this decade, so probably all that shit.

ESB -1138
21st Century Break Down by Green Day
Little Voice by Sara Barielles
The Fame by Lady Gaga (Paparazzi FTW!)
Capricorn by Jay Chou
My Lonely Town by the B'z

Rainism by Bi Rain
Mes Courants Electriques by Alizee
Still Fantasy by Jay Chou
The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga
First Love by Utada Hikaru

Stiff Upper Lip by AC/DC
Invincible by Michael Jackson
Stories & Songs by Mark Schultz
Peachtree Road by Elton John

Face the Promise by Bob Seger
Take the Weather With You by Jimmy Buffett
Long Road Out of Eden by the Eagles
Freedom by Akon
Sleep Through the Static by Jack Johnson
Gods & Guns by Lynyrd Skynyrd

Victor Von Doom
Originally posted by ladygrim
my fav of the decade


their other one which the name i cant remember


Cor, that must have been good.

There have been brilliant albums, Illinois, Ys, Lateralus, Radiohead have had a few, Iron & Wine likewise, and there are a lot of others.

Rain Dog
A few that I like, but haven't yet been mentioned: Stankonia by Outkast, The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy, Deltron 3030 by Deltron 3030, The W by Wu Tang Clan, Think Tank by Blur, Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins, Sharpen Your Teeth by Ugly Casanova, Up the Bracket by The Libertines, You Forgot it in People by Broken Social Scene.

lord xyz
Chinese Democracy was pretty good.

Victor Von Doom
Originally posted by Rain Dog
A few that I like, but haven't yet been mentioned: Stankonia by Outkast, The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy, Deltron 3030 by Deltron 3030, The W by Wu Tang Clan, Think Tank by Blur, Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins, Sharpen Your Teeth by Ugly Casanova, Up the Bracket by The Libertines, You Forgot it in People by Broken Social Scene.

Sophtware Slump is a good call.

AsbestosFlaygon
Synthpop artists and alternative/indie bands made some good music this past decade..

Some of these are Owl City, LIGHTS, Passion Pit, Dredg, Death Cab For Cutie, Annasay..

Pezmerga
Originally posted by Pezmerga
my favorite albums...

Snakes And Arrows - Rush
The Human Equation - Ayreon
01011001 - Ayreon
Everything by Jack White this decade...
Anonymous - Tomahawk
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Everything by Muse so far...
Funeral - Arcade Fire
Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
Doomsday Afternoon - Phideaux
We will start with that....I will add more later.

I will add The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists as well.

Bardock42
Additionaly to some of those mentione I enjoyed the following of this decade quite a lot:

Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Elliott Smith - Figure 8

Myth
SOAD takes the best band of the decade for me.

AsbestosFlaygon
Mr. Bungle for me

Eon Blue
I haven't heard a Bungle reference in some time.

Darth Jello
Since we still have another year before the decade actually ends, does anyone think that something incredible will come out before 12/31/10?

Pezmerga
Originally posted by Darth Jello
Since we still have another year before the decade actually ends, does anyone think that something incredible will come out before 12/31/10?

Hopefully a new Rush Album big grin

wicker_man
The past decade has seen some excellent releases, for me the highlights have been:

Akercocke -
Rape of the Bastard Nazarene (1999)
The Goat of Mendes (2001)
Choronzon (2003)
Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone (2005)
Antichrist (2007)

Opeth -
Still Life (1999)
Blackwater Park (2001)
Deliverance (2002)
Damnation (2003)
Ghost Reveries (2005)
Watershed (2008)

Mastodon -
Remission (2002)
Leviathan (2004)
Blood Mountain (2006)
Crack the Skye (2009)

Iron Maiden -
Brave New World (2000)
Dance of Death (2003)
A Matter of Life and Death (2006)

Tool -
Lateralus (2001)
10,000 Days (2006)

The Diablo Swing Orchestra -
The Butcher's Ballroom (2006)
Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (2009)

Muse -
Origin of Symmetry (2001)
Absolution (2003)
Black Holes and Revelations (2006)
The Resistance (2009)

The Mars Volta -
De-Loused in the Comatorium (2003)
Frances the Mute (2005)
Amputechture (2006)
The Bedlam in Goliath (2008)
Octahedron (2009)

Dark Tranquility -
Fiction (2007)

Slayer -
God Hates Us All (2001)

Deicide -
The Stench of Redemption (2006)

Dr. Leg Kick
CunninLynguists-

Will Rap For Food (2001)
http://theoriginalfundamentals.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/cunninlyngists.jpg

Southernunderground (2003)
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/1689-southernunderground.jpg

A Piece of Strange (2006)
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_s8btKP626mY/Sqam1HqUgJI/AAAAAAAAABc/SlgcV5-_fCM/s400/A+Piece+Of+Strange.JPG

Dirty Acres (2007)
http://estosesale.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/dirty-acres.jpg

REXXXX
Originally posted by Pezmerga
I will add The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists as well.

I like your tastes, Pezmerga. smile

Selphie
no glory for the white stripes??

REXXXX
Nobody has mentioned them yet? I feel that Jack White showed up a lot this decade, with his various bands.

Eon Blue
I looove The White Stripes. I just forgot to include them anywhere - they do, definitely belong in a list of this decade's great music.

Rain Dog
De Stijl should get on there, in my opinion.

Pezmerga
I mentioned Everything by Jack White lol stick out tongue

The_usher
Immortal Technique - Dance With The Devil
Still Fantasy by Jay Chou
Sonic Youth-Confusion Is Next
Nirvana-With The Lights Out
Augustana - BostonFeel Good Inc. by Gorillaz
Strange Lights by Deerhunter

AsbestosFlaygon
I will add Dir En Grey and Mr. Bungle as well.

Eon Blue
Originally posted by AsbestosFlaygon
I will add Dir En Grey and Mr. Bungle as well.

Have Mr. Bungle even released anything in the last decade?

Alpha Centauri
No.

1999 was their last album. 1999 or 1998.

-AC

AsbestosFlaygon
Not even a "Best of"??

*sigh* They should somehow reform again.. The music industry right now is desperately in need of such talents.

RedAlertv2
Originally posted by AsbestosFlaygon
Not even a "Best of"??

*sigh* They should somehow reform again.. The music industry right now is desperately in need of such talents. Music is doing fine and always will be, no matter the state of the music industry

Alpha Centauri
Originally posted by AsbestosFlaygon
Not even a "Best of"??

*sigh* They should somehow reform again.. The music industry right now is desperately in need of such talents.

How?

How would a band like Mr. Bungle save the music industry? Certainly not by sales, because they're one of the least accessible bands ever. Not by music...because they're one of the least accessible bands ever.

I don't particularly care about the "industry", I care about the music I enjoy. I can listen to Mr. Bungle any time, so them not being around isn't a bummer to me.

Mainstream culture, as far as music goes, IS at a noticeable low. So what? I don't care.

I just don't think you thought that comment through.

It's like people who said Watchmen was a good movie adaptation because most movies are shit. Why? It didn't make mainstream movies better, didn't make the book better, but all it gave us was a load of try-hard posers.

-AC

AsbestosFlaygon
Music industry SUCKS now.

Full of Autotune garbage.

Not many innovative/talented singers/bands around anymore.

Bardock42
Originally posted by AsbestosFlaygon
Music industry SUCKS now.

Full of Autotune garbage.

Not many innovative/talented singers/bands around anymore.

I do think they are still around. They are however less in the public eye.

Victor Von Doom
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri


Mainstream culture, as far as music goes, IS at a noticeable low. So what?

As far as everything goes. Music is probably getting off lightly all told.

Cartesian Doubt
I'm and English student and Indie-house music tends to take the place of Rock n Roll, in my circles. So my album list is going to be mainly Influenced by Indie, Dance Electro music.

In no particular Order

1. Justice - Cross
2. Digitalism - Idealism
3. As Heard on Radio Soulwax part 2 - 2manyDj's (not really an album per, se, but easily the greatest complimation of the decade !
4. Late of the Pier - Black Fantasy Channel
5. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
6. Daft Punk-Discovery
7. Cut Copy - In Ghost Color's
8. Midnight Juggernauts- Dystopia
9. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
10. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever the People Say
11. Kanye West - Graduation
12. Streets - A Grand Don't come for Free
13. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
14. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires / MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
15. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
16. Pendulum - Hold Your Colours
17. Soulwax - Nite Versions
18. Killers - Hot Fuss
19. Block Party - Silent Alarm
20. Simian and the Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasure
21. Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
22. LCD Soundsystems - Sound of Silver

Eon Blue
I approve of that list.

Selphie
Cross is definitely a great, solid album, love Justice.

Cartesian Doubt
Originally posted by Selphie
Cross is definitely a great, solid album, love Justice.

Waters Of Nazareth IMO is arguably one of the most revolutionary track of the 00's. It was the first track to bridge the gap between Electro-House and epic Indie Rock. I think the infant Heavy metal-Rave genre that will provide many of the Head banging classics of the next century.

Sabu935
Saliva- Back into Your System
Nickelback- Dark Hoarse

Did not buy much albums.

Slay

Omnislash Kid
Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
How?

How would a band like Mr. Bungle save the music industry? Certainly not by sales, because they're one of the least accessible bands ever. Not by music...because they're one of the least accessible bands ever.

I don't particularly care about the "industry", I care about the music I enjoy. I can listen to Mr. Bungle any time, so them not being around isn't a bummer to me.

Mainstream culture, as far as music goes, IS at a noticeable low. So what? I don't care.

I just don't think you thought that comment through.

It's like people who said Watchmen was a good movie adaptation because most movies are shit. Why? It didn't make mainstream movies better, didn't make the book better, but all it gave us was a load of try-hard posers.

-AC Well put.

Esomark
I remember a few years back when all the metalcore bands were saying "Nu metal sucks! It's all commercialized and shit!", you name it. But then they ended up in the same boat. I'll bet the next set of trend setters will say metalcore sucks. I still find Alive or Just Breathing-era Killswitch listenable and the same with pre-Threads of Life Shadows Fall but what they've done since then doesn't interest me.

While I don't keep up with the mainstream, I don't let it get to me. There's plenty of music from the past few decades I missed out on and it's been fun searching those years.

Omnislash Kid
Originally posted by Esomark
I remember a few years back when all the metalcore bands were saying "Nu metal sucks! It's all commercialized and shit!", you name it. But then they ended up in the same boat. I'll bet the next set of trend setters will say metalcore sucks. I still find Alive or Just Breathing-era Killswitch listenable and the same with pre-Threads of Life Shadows Fall but what they've done since then doesn't interest me.

While I don't keep up with the mainstream, I don't let it get to me. There's plenty of music from the past few decades I missed out on and it's been fun searching those years.

Dude, every genre does that. It's not anything new. I personally enjoy metalcore though

jaden101
Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
I'm and English student and Indie-house music tends to take the place of Rock n Roll, in my circles. So my album list is going to be mainly Influenced by Indie, Dance Electro music.

In no particular Order

1. Justice - Cross
2. Digitalism - Idealism
3. As Heard on Radio Soulwax part 2 - 2manyDj's (not really an album per, se, but easily the greatest complimation of the decade !
4. Late of the Pier - Black Fantasy Channel
5. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
6. Daft Punk-Discovery
7. Cut Copy - In Ghost Color's
8. Midnight Juggernauts- Dystopia
9. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
10. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever the People Say
11. Kanye West - Graduation
12. Streets - A Grand Don't come for Free
13. Snow Patrol - Final Straw
14. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires / MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
15. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
16. Pendulum - Hold Your Colours
17. Soulwax - Nite Versions
18. Killers - Hot Fuss
19. Block Party - Silent Alarm
20. Simian and the Mobile Disco - Temporary Pleasure
21. Oasis - Heathen Chemistry
22. LCD Soundsystems - Sound of Silver

So you're basically admitting that the music you listen to is dictated by what people say you should listen to?

The fact that you don't even spell one of the band's names correctly suggests you don't even listen to the music or have any interest in the bands beyond when you are around those people who dictate your taste to you.

Quite sad really.

Jim Colyer
Nickelback

1 Figured You Out
2 Rock Star

Eon Blue
Originally posted by Jim Colyer
Nickelback

1 Figured You Out
2 Rock Star

Lol

mr.smiley
I've really enjoyed the last 2 Abney Park albums. Lost Horizons and Aether Shanties. Actually they have released one more since then but I have yet to hear it.

Pretty much everything Emilie Autumn has released as well since the beginning of the decade.
Five cellars below and anatomy of reanimation by Blitzkid too.

Deathblow
A strange decade, anti-climactic and frustrating, but probably not coincidentally considering it being the first full musical decade I've been old enough and experienced enough to observe critically from start to finish. Might have to make a thread concerning best albums of 2000-2010 soon, would be interesting. Replace that ancient thread from '07.

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